These Dallas hip-hop DJs have only seen one fight break out at their sets, and it was not due to turn-up or trap music. A Deep Ellum club owner is trying to ban the ambiguous genres on cause of safety. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

"No deed is too immoral for the two allies, once lovers, who would rather kill or die than fail to earn their dangerous reputations," writes @kate_peebles_ of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' on now at Theatre Three. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Now that you've taken in the lineup, you might be thinking: Wow. This year feels different. One force behind the richness is @seedandspark founder Emily Best, who opens whole worlds to filmmakers and watchers who are hungry for more. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Tonight The Get Up Kids play Dallas. They'll be met with fans nostalgic for emo, which is a sort of nostalgia itself -- a genre that Chelsey Norris, who works with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra by day, loves enough to have emphatically pitched this story. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Penelope Spheeris ran the first production company in LA to specialize in music videos, took her daughter to Black Flag shows while she documented the city's punk scene, and directed WAYNE'S WORLD. She's in Dallas this weekend for #OCFF2018 @filmoakcliff dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

The music most helpful in coping with loss or shouldering fear could share a common quality: raw honesty. @JezyGray and Francis Quinlan of @HopAlongtheband sort it out in this great interview. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Good morning! The Oak Cliff Film Festival begins Thursday, with a lineup this year to top the six before it. Check this guide and get tickets before they're gone. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

A select Dallas audience saw Boots Riley's SORRY TO BOTHER YOU before its release. Erykah Badu was among them. "I don’t think I’ve ever seen some shit like that. And I think I’ve seen a lot of different kinds of shit," she said after the screening. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Kanye West and the Louis Vuitton fashion house have benefitted from Takashi Murakami's immersive color-mind. Read about the Superflat founder's latest spectacle, now on view at The Modern in Fort Worth. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

iQ Haus, a 6,000 square-foot event space in the Design District, is painted white floor-to-ceiling between installations, envisioned as a blank canvas that can accommodate anything. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Dallas artists Sudie and Teddy Georgia Waggy are working together. Peek into the new desert residency where it all began. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra named its next music director. Fabio Luisi rose to fame as the well-loved understudy for an often absent James Levine, the disgraced maestro who spent more than 40 years at the Met's helm. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

What does care work— the kind of labor done by teachers, nurses, flight attendants, social workers and parents— look like as art? dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

20 Things You Must Do In Dallas this June: the Oak Cliff Film Festival, pop art turned up loud at The Modern, and Hop Along among them dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Some Dallas venues' websites were knocked offline by the Ticketfly hack. While they wait, here's where you can find tickets and info for concerts this weekend: dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

this weekend in Dallas, you could: walk straight through a fridge see a 30-minute play at a taco shop celebrate a jazz club's 30th birthday sing along with Paul Simon for the last time dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

The team behind Texas Theatre just bought an abandoned movie house on Denton's town square. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

At CalArts in the early '90s, Laura Owens set out on the path to sweeping aside self-conscious limitations, charging headlong into the frontiers of “why the hell not.” dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

This week: the Deep Ellum Spelling Bee David Blaine at Fair Park Art214 at Oak Cliff Cultural Center Proust's muses at the DMA another KXT Sun Sets, with GIVERS and more sunsets dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…